 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...of my Hiftory. At the outfet all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true sera of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the divifions of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to caft away the... | |
 | English literature - 1796 - 616 pages
...of my liiftory. At the outfet all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true £Era of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction, the divifion of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to caft away the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...volume of my Hiftory. At the outfet all was dark and doubtful; even the tide of the work, the true sera of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduction, the divifion of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to caft away the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...volume of my Hiftory. At the outfet all was dark and doubtful; even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire , the limits of the introduction , the divifion of the chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was often tempted to caft away the... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pages
...my hiftory. At the outfet, all was dark and doubtful — even the title of the work, the true sera of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits of the introduftion, and- the divifion of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1807 - 606 pages
...Roman history " at the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true aera of the decline and fall of the empire, the limits...the division of the chapters, and the order of the narration ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years." Akenside has exquisitely... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true fera of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits...seven years. The style of an author should be the • From the mixed, though polite company of Boodle's, White's, and Brooke's, I must honourably distinguish... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 716 pages
...in a more permanent form than the pages of a magazine afford. T Johnion'i " Vanity of Human Wishes." of an author should be the image of his mind, but...and command of language is the fruit of exercise." His plan of life now was to be, when old enough, ordained, and eventually to retire from Oxford on... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Literature - 1824 - 536 pages
...the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true aera of the decline anS fall of the empire, the limits of the introduction,...the division of the chapters, and the order of the narration ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years." Akenside has exquisitely... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...of my history. At the outset all was dark and doubtful — even the title of the work, the true era of the Decline and Fall of the Empire, the limits...chapters, and the order of the narrative; and I was ofteA tempted to cast away the labour of seven years. /The style of an author should be the image of... | |
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History. At the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true era of the " Decline and Fall of the Empire," the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted... 
